Fish:
Back in October, Afarensis introduced us to the Douc langur (Pygathrix nemaeus), and noted that the species was comprised of three subspecies, one of which was the grey-shanked douc langur (P. n. cinerea). That subspecies is one of the 25...
Posted on July 4, 2007 3:35 PM • 1 Comments
My post-doctoral research was in hybridization among endangered desert fishes here in the American Southwest, so it has made me happy to read that a new population of the endangered Desert pupfish (Cyprinodon macularius, above) has mysteriously appeared in...
Posted on July 4, 2007 2:37 PM • 2 Comments
The old story goes that JBS Haldane felt that God had an inordinate fondness for beetles. It also seems he likes catfish. CJ Ferraris has produced a checklist of fossil and living catfishes and estimated that there are 3093...
Posted on June 6, 2007 2:39 PM • 3 Comments
There has been some blogospheric notice of the Conservation International survey in Surimane which has found 24 new species. Other good news is that the previously thought to be extinct dwarf suckermouth catfish (Harttiella crassicauda, above) has been re-discovered....
Posted on June 5, 2007 11:23 PM • 1 Comments
AP is reporting: Female sharks can fertilize their own eggs and give birth without sperm from males, according to a new study of the asexual reproduction of a hammerhead in a U.S. zoo. The joint Northern Ireland-U.S. research, being published...
Posted on May 22, 2007 9:41 PM • 2 Comments
So I noticed that visits to the blog ramped up after 2100 EST tonight with traffic increasing ten-fold. And the reason? Grey's Anatomy mentioned this little blighter....
Posted on April 26, 2007 11:31 PM • 0 Comments
Over at Fark.com they are discussing this photo of a Goliath tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath) which occurs in the Congo River basin, the Lualaba River, Lake Upemba and Lake Tanganyika....
Posted on April 5, 2007 2:42 PM • 1 Comments
Four new species of Loricariid catfish have been described from the upper RÃo Orinoco of southern Venezuela: (A) Hypancistrus inspector, (B) H. lunaorum, (C) H. furunculus, and (D) H. debilittera, Full details are in Armbruster et al. (2007) "Four...
Posted on March 6, 2007 8:44 PM • 0 Comments
This little beauty is a new species of Pemelodus catfish. P. tetramerus was described from the Rio Tapajos and Rio Tocatins in Brazil. It is related to the Pictus catfish that are available in many fish stores....
Posted on January 24, 2007 5:30 PM • 0 Comments
Otocinclus batmani O. batmani is a new species of loricariid catfish native to the Rio Pure in Colombia and two creeks draining into the Rio Amazonas near Iquitos in Peru. The specific name ("batmani") is in honor of Batman...
Posted on January 9, 2007 7:34 PM • 0 Comments
Regular readers may remember that I have a softspot for catfish and earlier this year purchased a lace catfish (Synodontis nigrita), a species native to many African countries. The genus Synodontis (Cuvier 1816) is interesting for a number of...
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Posted on December 21, 2006 12:08 AM • 1 Comments
I'm sure that this Thanksgiving many of us are gorged on turkey. As a respite, I give you the above ... a European record wels catfish, Silurus glanis, all 8 foot and 226lbs of it....
Posted on November 24, 2006 12:01 AM • 1 Comments
While I'm at it, here's another new species. In this case, it is a catfish from Mexico, Lacantunia enigmatica, which has a number of distinguishing characteristics. As the abstract to the description [pdf] states: A new family (Lacantuniidae), genus...
Posted on October 12, 2006 11:37 AM • 0 Comments
An Atlantic tripletail caught in the Bristol Channel this week may be the first recorded occurrence of the species in Britain. The Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis, is found in tropical and subtropical waters around the world, but is exceptionally...
Posted on September 22, 2006 5:32 PM • 0 Comments
Hemiscyillum sp., recently discovered off the coast of Indonesia. This little puppy walks on its pectoral fins as do other epaulette sharks of the genus. For more on the find, see here. Apparently, epaulette sharks make good aquarium denizens....
Posted on September 18, 2006 1:09 PM • 0 Comments
A fisherman who speared a protected species of grouper while diving off Florida has been killed after the fish swam into a hole and entangled him in the line attached to the speargun. A 42-year-old Florida man, who has...
Posted on September 12, 2006 7:23 PM • 2 Comments
